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The Social-Democratic bloc in the European Parliament has come out against the Jewish nation-state bill currently being formulated by a Knesset committee, saying it discriminates against Arabs in Israel. The bloc expressed its opposition to the pending Israeli legislation in a letter written to senior EU officials two weeks after a delegation of Joint List…

A clause in the chauvinistic “Jewish Nation-State Bill,” being prepared for a Knesset vote, would allow communities to establish towns exclusively for certain populations – excluding others on whatever grounds they deem fit. This specific clause was roundly condemned by politicians on both the Right and Left as well as by legal authorities in a…

The head of the Joint List, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), attacked Israel’s current government at a conference in Nazareth on Wednesday, November 15, for failing to work with the Arab citizens of the state on economic development. “Partnership is the key to the success of the Arab community,” Odeh said at an economic conference held…

The Knesset approved the first reading of a bill on Monday, November 13, that would require civil judges to rule “in light of the principles of Jewish law” if confronted with a case for which there is currently no law or legal precedent. The bill, which still must be approved in two additional readings, passed…

A two-day visit of elected members of the Joint List – the third largest political bloc in the Knesset – to European Union headquarters concluded on Friday, November 10, after a series of meetings with EU officials and parliamentarians during which an urgent appeal was made for the EU to put human rights at the…

The Jewish National Fund (JNF), known in Hebrew as Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, is extremely wealthy. It owns 13% of all the land in Israel and brings in some $3 billion a year, most of it from land sales. The Israeli government traditionally feels entitled to the JNF’s money, which according to its mission statement is…

A delegation of MKs from the Joint List arrived in Brussels Monday, November 6, for a series of political meetings at the headquarters of the European Union (EU). Hadash MKs Dr. Youssef Jabareen and Aida Touma-Sliman, and Chairman of the Committee on International Relations, MK Masud Ganaim (Ra’am), and MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad), as well…

Israel’s Minister of the Interior Arye Dery, leader of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, wants to let municipalities hold sex-segregated public events, despite a Justice Ministry ruling to the contrary that has also been adopted as a cabinet resolution. In a letter to Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, Dery argued that the ban on gender separation is…

Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – is demanding that the Israeli Education Ministry connect schools in an Arab-Bedouin village in the Negev Desert region to the national electrical grid. Adalah has sent a letter on behalf of the Wadi el-Na’am parents’ committee and the local village council, to senior…

Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – has obtained evidence confirming that private security guards at Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station, a major public transportation hub of the city, have received an illegal directive to detain Arab passengers who are not carrying identification and hold them until the arrival of…